My new book Zero Comments (New York, Routlegde, 2007) is...

Zero Comments: Blogging and Critical Internet Culture

By Geert Lovink, August 13, 2007

My new book Zero Comments (New York, Routlegde, 2007) is now available. I got it in the mail a few days ago. You can order it at Amazon. I am not sure when it will become available in bookstores. The book contains eleven essays and an introduction that deals with Web 2.0 and Internet culture [...]

In April 2007 I conducted an interview, in German, with...

The Second Bauhaus Destruction: Interview with Ralf Homann

By Geert Lovink, July 11, 2007

In April 2007 I conducted an interview, in German, with the German artist and activist Ralf Homann who is professor for experimental radio at the Bauhaus University in Weimar. Here it is it. The email exchange was made for a special issue of Micreaux, nr. 24, published by the Plattform studentischer Initiativen and appeared in [...]

I have posted an email interview with the US-American intellectual...

Organic Intellectual Work: Interview with Andrew Ross

By Geert Lovink, July 11, 2007

I have posted an email interview with the US-American intellectual activist Andrew Ross on my blog pages and to the nettime-l mailinglist. The reason for this exchange was the MyCreativity conference in Amsterdam that we organized in November 2006. At the last minute Andrew Ross was not able to attend the event. In the months [...]

Over the past year I have had an email exchange...

Exchange with Iraqi journalist Jamal al-Ameady

By Geert Lovink, July 10, 2007

Over the past year I have had an email exchange with the Iraqi journalist Jamal al-Ameady. The correspondence, that now has come to a close, had an old school delay feeling to it. Our emails had to be translated into Arab and English before being posted on the bi-lingual niqash.org site. The time shift didn’t [...]

Jacob Nielsen’s latest posting on his website ‘Write Articles, Not...

Jacob Nielsen’s crusade against blogging

By Geert Lovink, July 9, 2007

Jacob Nielsen’s latest posting on his website ‘Write Articles, Not Blog Postings’ is an interesting case of the corporate backlash against blogging. It is well known that global CEOs and ‘world leaders’ have been cautious utilizing blogs as a PR tool. During the blog craze of 2004 some of them made the step–and still post [...]

Eugenio Tisselli sent me a few questions and remarks about...

Speed Dialogue about Networks, Borders and Commitment

By Geert Lovink, June 7, 2007

Eugenio Tisselli sent me a few questions and remarks about the Ten Theses on Non-Democratic Electronics that Ned Rossiter and I recently wrote. Here is the dialogue. It deals with the question if networks have borders and if it is a good thing, or not, to set clear borders, rules and regulations. Are networks flourishing [...]

An early draft of the Ten Theses on Non-Democratic Electronics:...

Ten Theses on Non-Democratic Electronics (with Ned Rossiter)

By Geert Lovink, May 31, 2007

An early draft of the Ten Theses on Non-Democratic Electronics: Organized Networks Updated that Ned Rossiter and I wrote has been circulating on the Net. Please delete it, forget it, the text got out a bit too soon. The 0.1 draft was first posted on an internal email list that is used to prepare for [...]

On April 12 2007 I attented the annual Premsela Lecture...

Belated Notes 1: Josef Mrozek’s Premsela Lecture

By Geert Lovink, May 16, 2007

On April 12 2007 I attented the annual Premsela Lecture by Polish designer Josef Mrozek entitled “A Tradition Imagined–Some Remarks on European Design.” I went there, in part because it was down the road, but also because the title attracted me. What could European design be, other than (modernist) history and nostalgia for the vanished [...]

I have just posted onto the pages of this blog...

Web Aesthetics Interview with Vito Campanelli

By Geert Lovink, May 11, 2007

I have just posted onto the pages of this blog an extensive email interview that I did with Italian media theorist Vito Campanelli. Here it is. Thanks to Henry Warwick in San Francisco for the copy editing! In the interview we discuss what ‘web aesthetics’ could be all about, how the situation looks like in [...]

The editor of the Media-activist Cookbook, Oleg Kireev from Moscow...

Innovazia prize for Media-activist Cookbook

By Geert Lovink, May 7, 2007

The editor of the Media-activist Cookbook, Oleg Kireev from Moscow wrote me the following message: “Media-activist Cookbook” is awarded “Innovazia” prize. “Cookbook” introduces topics of tactical media and incluedes five Appendix articles: David Garcia’s and Geert Lovink’s “ABC of tactical media”, Matteo Pasquinelli’s “Urban Television Manifesto”, “On the use of tactical media in the orange [...]